Word: game
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conway, Ark., Pitcher Woody Jobe served up a fast ball that broke the batter's nose, then snapped off a second pitch that broke his own arm. In Salem, N.H., the local athletic club lost its biggest game when a black snake slithered out of Shortstop Bruce Magoon's glove just as he was about to scoop up an easy grounder...
...Montgomery remembers Nov. 15, 1923 very clearly. He had just quit his steel-hustling job at a Waukegan machine plant and was having a game of 10? black ball at the Aggressor Pool Hall with his friend, Finis Moore. But Jim and Finis got to arguing and suddenly they were heaving pool balls at each other...
...salaries, but Appling is the highest paid performer on a sixth-place club that is going nowhere this year, and it is generally believed that he gets about $25,000. His pretense of laziness is an affectation. He is full of hustle and hates to lose a close game. Once, after the Sox lost a 1-to-0 heartbreaker, Luke brooded through his dinner and threw it up afterward. This year he has been evicted from four games for arguing too strenuously with umpires...
...years ago, on "Appling Day" in Chicago, his fellow players gave him a watch inscribed: "To Old Aches & Pains-from the Boys." Luke spends an hour or so on the rubbing table before every game. He had no injuries and few complaints in 1942 and his batting average that year skidded to a feeble .262. Next year his aches & pains, real and imaginary, were up to standard and his average soared to .328. Trying to explain his hypochondria, Luke says: "You get a little thing here & there, up & down, something that don't look so bad at first...
...advertisers, plus an unexpected slump in the sales of receiving sets. Explained Charles G. Mortimer Jr., vice president of General Foods Corp.: "There's one big difference between radio's early days and television's: in radio you had a chance to get in the game [for a] stack of white chips-in television, for national advertisers like ourselves, it takes several stacks of blues to find out whether you've got a pair of deuces or a full house. This, frankly, is giving some advertisers pause...